Fountains

Exterior view of large building and fountain area in front of the building. Believed to have been taken in the city of Tashkent located in Uzbekistan in central Asia. Building my be the Bolshoi Theater or Opera House. Visiting Tashkent was on Averell Harriman's agenda during is 1959 trip to the Soviet Union. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Exterior view of large building and fountain area in front of the building. Believed to have been taken in the city of Tashkent located in Uzbekistan in central Asia. Building my be the Bolshoi Theater or Opera House. Visiting Tashkent was on Averell Harriman's agenda during is 1959 trip to the Soviet Union. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Exterior view of large building and fountain area in front of the building. Believed to have been taken in the city of Tashkent located in Uzbekistan in central Asia. Building my be the Bolshoi Theater or Opera House. Visiting Tashkent was on Averell Harriman's agenda during is 1959 trip to the Soviet Union. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

View of a tsukubai dragon fountain in the Horyuji Temple in Nara, Japan.

Exterior view of a Russian, columned building with fountain in front. Believed to have been taken in Kiev, Russia during W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Russian trip. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. Original 35mm negative.

Reathel Odum sits on a bench by a fountain in Washington, D.C. At this time, Ms. Odum was secretary to Senator Harry S. Truman.

Unidentified monument with a building in the background and a fountain and reflecting pool in the foreground.

View of the speakers and attendees at the dedication ceremony for the Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain in Washington, D.C. Standing at the podium is Fred Vinson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Pictured on rostrum: Ann (Mrs. Oscar) Chapman (front row, left); Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (front row, second from left). All others unidentified.

View of the rostrum and guests at the dedication ceremony for the Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain in Washington, D.C. Pictured on rostrum: Ann (Mrs. Oscar) Chapman (front row, left); Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (front row, second from left). All others unidentified.

View of speakers and guests at the dedication ceremony for the Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain in Washington, D.C. Pictured, rostrum: Ann (Mrs. Oscar) Chapman (front row, left); Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (front row, second from left). All others unidentified.